2022 Global Challenge: Call for Architectural Project Submissions
Global Challenge (#GC2022) is welcoming submissions from self-build communities worldwide. The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2022.
Month: November 2022
LK Apartment / Estúdio Oficina
The integration between the living room and the kitchen and the improvement of ventilation and lighting in those environments were the guidelines for this project. Some walls were thus demolished, which also allowed for a larger couple’s bedroom.
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Ocean Sciences Campus Extensions NMU / SVA International
The client brief called for the creation of a new ‘entrance’ building and identity for the Nelson Mandela University Ocean Sciences Campus, while also providing a series of dedicated academic spaces within a specialized research environment. The building is conceptualized as a large internal veranda space, articulated as a triple-volume, multi-layered foyer space which links the main circulation spine with the more private spaces within. The internal planning contains a number of dedicated research spaces, specialized laboratories, offices, and meeting areas as well as an eight-meter-deep diving tank used for training purposes, which also forms an integral part of the western façade articulation.
Porto Potenza Picena Primary School / Settanta7
The project was conceived to create a zero-maintenance iconic architecture through shapes and volumes, which was to be welcoming and in dialogue with the existing urban fabric. The result is a C shaped building distributed over two levels, with an internal courtyard to be designated as a playground for outdoor recess.
geometric cut-outs frame atlantic views for aires mateus’ concrete ‘pa.te.os’ in portugal
pa.te.os was born from the desire to be outdoors.
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Norman Foster creates angular retreat in Martha’s Vineyard for “friends of the Foster family”
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Norman Foster has designed the Foster Retreat in Martha’s Vineyard as a holiday home for his friends and those of the Norman Foster Foundation, which features furniture designed by the architect for Karimoku. Named the Foster Retreat, the mono-pitch roofed building in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was built opposite Foster’s US home. The
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kengo kuma’s ‘kagu house’ is the first of several satellite coworking spaces to be built in japan
the first edition of these co-working spaces is available not only to kengo kuma employees but also to others on a membership basis.
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Paved courtyard hidden by “muted facade” of LR House in Spain
An austere exterior conceals a series of living spaces around a central courtyard at this home in the Spanish town of Citruénigo, designed by local studio Lecumberri & Cidoncha and architect Ińigo Beguiristain. Occupying a plot surrounded by low-rise homes, LR House was designed in response to a simple brief for a one-bed, single-storey dwelling.
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“Thor’s Hammer flattens another 13-storey parking ramp,” says commenter
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing North Carolina architecture studio Duda Paine’s 405 Colorado office building in Austin and other top architecture and design stories. The architecture studio was commissioned to create a parking structure, but realised that the space could be better utilised with an office element on top and was given
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